---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Field, Eugene
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 13
number: 3
published: 1910-01
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Field, Eugene, "The Little Peach," *Improvement Era* 13, no. 3 (January 1910): 220.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1303unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera1303unse
start_page: 220
end_page: 220
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1910-01)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1303unse
  publication_year: 1910
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1910, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# The Little Peach


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——

220                        IMPROVEMENT ERA.

mother loves me.          She    is   capable of selling everything for me,
even to her     last   article   of   clothing."      Do you marvel that he
attained greatness with such a mother's love behind him?
The greatness of a nation lies in the goodness of its mothers;
for in the goodness of its mothers lies the greatness of its sons.
The greatest greatness is the greatness of love; and mother's love
is the   greatest of human loves.          It is sacrifical love.      It is a phase

of that greater love displayed by the All-Father in the gift                 of his
Son as a vicarious sacrifice on the Cross of Calvary.                Mothers have
been known to suffer for that which they have not been guilty,
in order to shield their sons from          shame.
How great a word is mother!                   And the greatest        of   our
great men have not failed to do homage to              They have added
it.

their testimony to       the sanctity of the union of mother and child.

In the two pure loves of child and mother,
Two human lives make one divine.

Gateshead, England.

The Little Peach.
{Selected.)

A little peach in the orchard grew
A little peach of emerald hue;
Warmed by the sun and wet by the dew
It grew.
One day, passing that orchard through,
That little peach dawned on the view
Of Johnny Jones and his sister Sue—
Them two.
Up at that peach a club they threw
Down from the stem on which it grew
Fell that peach of emerald hue.
Mon dieu!
John took a bite and Sue a chew,
And then the trouble began to brew
Trouble the doctor couldn't subdue,
Too true!
What of the peach of the emerald hue,
Warmed by the sun and wet by the dew?
Oh, well, its mission on earth is through,
Adieu!
Eugene Field.